Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-09-13
REDUCING FLAX SEED.

REDUCING FLAX SEED.
The First Product from the FIRST Lin
seed Oil Aill in Dakota in all it's Sol,
EN- Greasiness-A Elsxseed's Trip
a Liquid ConGitioa,
The Yankton linseed oil mill, "a
latest addition to the manufacturer
industries OF this city, has started i.
machinery and entered the field of CON
petition rs q mandatory. This mil
adds its share to the value of Yanktol
as q manufacturing center and it is rlgh
that the people should appreciate 1t
presence and by word and effort thro,
to the enterprise every advantage posi-
BILE. The oil mill is not yet RAINING q
it's fullest capacity, but when it is re
nembered that the mill ia the semi
experimental nature this will not be won
dered at. But the future promises pros
perity for the establishment and III
prosperity will be q part of Yankton'
prosperity.
A reporter visited the mill this fore
noon and was shown around by G.. q
Archer, the present manager and par
owner. Mr.. Archer first said: "Now
Just imagine yourself a fax seed for 6
half hour, SO that you may fully under.
stand. You grew IN field some DIS
lance from town. Yesterday you were
brought to market and sold at the mill.
The sack III which you we're kept was
ernptied into the hopper at the scales,
and you were weighed along with the
other seeds, and paid Tor. Then yon
belong to the mill.
From the scales you are elevated TO .
a screener in the top story, where you
are separated from ell dirt. Then you
fall into a large bin, and when your turn
comes you descend to those five large
rolls where you are squeezed and
damned and mashed until you bear no
resemblance to your former oval, saucer
like shape.
The oil which you contain is seoreted
in q minute cell in the very center OF
you and you must be completely crushed
in spirit and body before you give that
oil up. From tho rolls you go to q sys-
tenn of heaters, where yous are cooked
and dried. Usually in the heaters you
must be moistened, but this year you
are too wet and you must be dried. From
the heaters you ere transported to what
Is callsd q former, where you take on the
shape of q dashboard without the legs.
This shape is given you SO that you will
lit the press into which you go next.
There the light OF the world is forever
shut from you as You are pressed by
hydraulic power which brings $500
pouDds TO bear upon every square inch
the press. The oil Is squeezed out OF
you there and o your ssplees remains
are taken from the press In the form OF
oil cake, and your LIES journey is ended.,'
This is q trip made by q flax seed in |
It's Transformation from gram to grease
oil cake, and the trip when explain. |
ed by 9 competent person is very inter-
to every n but the fax seed.
The presses which are used 10 this |
were invented by g. a. Aroher's
father and are labor saving utensils TO
The last degree. The former system OF
pressing was to oontine the meal in q
sack and then to press the oil out. This
system consists OF plates containing
hundreds of small holes through which
the oil drains with great rapidly.
After the pressing the cake is taken
and prepared for shipment, while the !
oil is conducted to o set OF tanks where
it is allowed to settle, and where it RS
mains until 1t is barreled and shipped. |
The mill contains a complete system
Of elevators and storage bins, and the
machinery is propelled by q steam en-.
CINE Of efficient power for a much |
larger mill. The barrels for the mill are
bought OF merchants in the city, fos the !
reason that old barrels are better than |
new ones for preserving the oil.
81. d. DeRash, the builder Of the mill /!
hss built more mills than any man in
the United States, and his reputation
the Yankton mill as a we'll
built institution.
The first oil and oil cake was pro-
duced yesterday, and in spite OF the
that every thing is new the products
are good. Samples OF both oil and oil
cake may be seen at the Press andDako-
ta,an counting room.